This may be your “My Documents” folder or any subfolder contained within it.

You can repeat these procedures if you cannot make the window large enough for all of the files to be shown on the screen.

The text on this button may be abbreviated, depending upon the keyboard model you are using. It may be Prt Scn or some other shortened description.

In Windows Vista or Windows 7, type Command Prompt or Cmd in the Start Menu search box and press “Enter. " In Windows ​XP, you will find the Command Prompt application in the Accessories section of the programs listed under your Start Menu.

For instance, if you want a full list of files from your Documents folder, you would follow “dir /a” with “C:\Users\YourUserName\Documents,” keeping the quotation marks for this part of the command only.

For instance, to save the file on your desktop in Windows Vista, you would type “>C:\users\yourusername\desktop\dirlist. txt” without the quotation marks in the command prompt.

You have just created a . txt file named “dirlist” located on your desktop. Double-clicking this file will open it in Word, Notepad or some other text-editing program where it can easily be formatted and printed.